Peter Pedder News Today

It is a month now since the troubled water provider, United Utilities, announced – to much initial cheer on social media – that it would not be renewing any licences for grouse shooting to tenants on its land. The company, which was reported almost 70,000 times for sewage leaks in 2022, said that the move marked a significant change in its approach to land management. Shooting Times spoke to a number of gamekeepers and shoot managers on the ground just as the news was breaking, who said that...

Country’s largest corporate landowner announced just weeks before Saturday’s Glorious Twelfth that it will not renew licences on its land

A decision by United Utilities has been described as a travesty for conservation and a body-blow to rural businesses already reeling from the…